Mississippi’s casino-backed government spent many years fighting the various terrorist and rebellious groups in the State’s poorer, more rural regions. Some proved easy to subdue, most often by simply buying their grievances out. The casinos had a great deal of money, most of it from Out-of-State sources. Giving the poorer citizens of Mississippi a piece of the pie was small ball for the casinos. The harder nuts to crack proved to be the various anti-capitalist revolutionist terror groups. They sported funding from beyond the State as well, and many of their best leaders trained with their brothers in arms from the various Islamic States. They were extremely dedicated to the revolution, forcing Mississippi’s new government to hunt down and eradicate them, one group at a time. This was often unhealthy for the nearby landscape or any people in the area.
Mississippi truly was different from most States during Second Great Depression. Most States saw riots and looting in the cities, and law and order in the smaller towns and farmlands. But it was the rich and powerful gambling districts and cities of Mississippi that had power and security to keep them safe. And it was in the poor rural and small town regions that the evils of roving gangs and terrorists took hold, though they did manage to the storm the Capitol. The casinos helped coordinate the emergency election after the Governor was murdered, and they put forth a mutual candidate that would represent them all. He won easily, formed a new government on the Gulf Coast behind casino security lines, and proceeded to fight a long war to reclaim the rest of the State from the chaos it had fallen to.
Mississippi’s prosperity in the years before the Second Great Depression was not across the board. There were haves and have nots all over the State. And though the lights never went out in Mississippi, many areas of the State did go dark during that time of crisis. Rioters and looters burned down major city districts, and terrorists took over the capital itself. They captured, tortured, and killed the Governor and her family on live network broadcast to drive home the message that they ruled. It was a dark time for the parts of Mississippi caught outside the gambling districts where security and prosperity continued to bring in record profits.
Mississippi’s primary “industry” in the years before the Second Great Depression was gambling. Casinos dominated every shoreline and beach throughout the State, competing to bring vacationers from all around the United States and beyond. This made them highly resistant to many of the worst effects of the general collapse that accompanied the depression. “Misery loves company” is a saying that has an odd amount of truth, and their gambling businesses actually saw rising profits as the decay accelerated around the world. Those profits paid for expanded security of both the private and public variety, including AI networks, and their gambling districts never shut down. The lights never went out in Mississippi.
Today, our southern border is wide open, with hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens crossing it every month. Our infection rates in the current crazy are going up, thanks a great deal to the unpoked and infected illegal aliens being sent all over the country. Intelligence now suggests that China was to blame for the whole thing. Energy and fuel costs are higher, and pipelines all over the nation have been shut down or threatened. Our economy is sliding towards stagflation, unemployment is twitching, and everything is on edge. Those who protest election fraud have been banned from social media, or jailed in solitary confinement for months, but the FBI reports there was no Insurrection. Russia is building a new pipeline with Biden’s approval. And Afghanistan is collapsing back to Taliban rule due to the worst military pullout since Saigon. What a difference seven months makes.
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